Petersen, Jens-Phillip

The paper evaluates the current status of community energy planning in northern Europe via a review of literature, practice and the performance of a barrier analysis for successful community energy planning. Main findings of the paper are that current community energy planning lacks a systematic approach, suffers from insufficient information, tools and resources. Municipalities are often unable to take on a steering role in community energy planning. To overcome these barriers and guide municipalities in the pre-project phase, a decision-support methodology, based on community energy profiles (CEP), is presented. The methodology was applied in a case study in Germany. With CEPs, a possibility to merge qualitative data from local settings into generic energy modelling is shown, which could contribute to improved community energy strategies

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Optimization of energy planning strategies in municipalities:Are community energy profiles the key to a higher implementation rate of renewable energies?

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Downloaded from orbit.dtu.dk on: Nov 08, 2017Optimization of municipal energy strategies: Are community energy profiles the key toa higher implementation rate of renewable energies?Petersen, Jens-PhillipPublished in:Book of Abstracts. DTU's Sustain Conference 2015Publication date:2015Document VersionPublisher's PDF, also known as Version of recordLink back to DTU OrbitCitation (APA):Petersen, J-P. (2015). Optimization of municipal energy strategies: Are community energy profiles the key to ahigher implementation rate of renewable energies? In Book of Abstracts. DTU's Sustain Conference 2015 [L-16]Lyngby: Technical University of Denmark (DTU).   Optimization	of	municipal	energy	strategies:	Are	community	energy	pro‐files	the	key	to	a	higher	implementation	rate	of	renewable	energies?		Jens‐Phillip Petersen1 1: DTU Civil Engineering, ICIEE  *Corresponding author email: jepete@byg.dtu.dk  It is at the local level where policies to increase the share of renewable energies and higher energy efficien‐cy measures get  implemented. Municipalities, as  responsible entity  for physical planning, can hold a key role  in  transforming  our  energy  systems  towards  carbon‐neutrality.  The  implementation  has  to  be  ap‐proached at community scale, rather than at building or city scale, which has many advantages.1 Despite the promising efforts  to approach  this at community scale,  the  implementation of  renewable energies  is still too slow to meet global or just national GHG reduction goals.2,3  The  study  evaluates  the  current  state  of  community  energy planning in northern Europe via a review of literature and prac‐tice.  Two major mismatches  have  been  identified:  First,  com‐munity  energy  concepts  and  the  available  literature  are  too technical and rarely consider qualitative factors that are crucial for  implementation of energy  strategies. Thus,  there  is a gen‐eral  gap  between  literature,  community  energy  concepts  and the actual  implementation process. Second, municipalities  lack knowledge on energy planning; ensuing, a guideline on choos‐ing  adequate  planning methodologies  to  implement  technical concepts. As a  reaction on  the  found barriers a decision‐support methodology was developed:  It  should help municipalities in the pre‐project phase to (A), identify possible energy technology strategies and assess their  impact on the energy performance of the community and  (B), connect the technical strategies with qualitative  information on the community, allowing choosing adequate planning methodologies to  imple‐ment the suggested energy strategies – community energy profiles (CEP). The CEPs enrich quantitative en‐ergy modelling,  which  too  often  produces  techno‐economic  standard  solutions,  with  qualitative  infor‐mation on the specific community via the identification of local socio‐economic challenges. Besides enhanc‐ing community energy system modelling, communities in various local settings become comparable. The basic function of the methodology can be described as a rough energy strategy feasibility analysis, with an addition of soft factors from the CEP to find the technology bundle that is most likely to be implemented and an advice about possible planning strategies to achieve this. The first application of the methodology enabled the municipality Elmshorn (Germany) to build‐up a cost‐efficient and low‐carbon district heating.4 The case showed the capacity as well as the potential for optimization of the methodology, which makes further development of the methodology into a decision‐support tool necessary.                                                              1 Erhorn‐Kluttig, H. (2011): Energetische Quartiersplanung. Methoden ‐ Technologien ‐ Praxisbeispiele. Stuttgart: Fraunhofer‐IRB‐Verl. 2 Sperling, K.; Hvelplund, F.; Mathiesen, B. V. (2011): Centralisation and decentralisation in strategic municipal energy planning in Denmark. In Energy Policy 39 (3), pp. 1338–1351.  3 Thellufsen, J. (2014): How to establish local renewable energy scenarios in the context of national energy systems. Conference: Proceedings of SEEP2014, 23‐25 November 2014, Dubai. 4 Petersen, J‐P (2015): Energy concepts for self‐supplying communities based on local and renewable energy sources: A case study from northern Germany. Manuscript sumbitted for publication. Fig. 1: Example of a CEP visualization Sustain DTU Abstract: L-16

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